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Originally Posted by Kameli
Is there some reason to actually put html files in PB360? I just use Calibre and so far .lit's and .html's have been automatically converted to epub's.
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For a long time I used book reading devices that required the books to be uploaded in a very strictly defined format. So I had to open every single file I wanted to put on my reader and make conversion. Set sanserif font, small margins, replace all "funny" characters, like curly quotes, em-dashes, ellipses ... . At one point I was using Cassiopeia A-11 and that device had problem with anything longer that 200KB. So I had to split larger books into chunks. Up to 10 chunks for really large books. At that time there was no Calibre or other drag & drop magical file converter available for us - pioneer e-book readers.
Even when I purchased Sony PRS-500 - that has been a huge improvement - I had to reformat the books, because I didn't like how they were displayed by default. An I still had to remove accented characters, curly quotes and other characters. (At that time I didn't know that there is program you can use to convert an rtf file to UTF8 encoding that seems to work with Sony Reader PRS-500)
When I got my PocketBook 360° I was in Seventh Heaven. Suddenly I could just drop most of the files to the reader and they worked. Just worked. No more tinkering with books for 15 minutes per file. The files not only worked, I was also able to override any crazy formatting the file might have. Like Comic Sans font, or 15mm wide margins, or full justification, that together with large font, wide margin and non-existing proper hyphenation created
rivers you could sail tanker through.
To answer your question why I put html files directly on my device:
Because now I can.
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Originally Posted by Kameli
Is epub "best" format to use with fb2 or should I change my Calibre settings?
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fb2 is the native format for FBReader - the main book reading application in PocketBook.
So if you use PocketBook, why convert from fb2?